Laura Gunn
@laura-gunn.bsky.social
Re-imagining photosynthetic carbon fixation | Asst Prof in synthetic plant biology @Cornell | She/her | 🇳🇿 in 🇺🇸
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Fay-Wei Li@fernway.bsky.social · 6mo agoOur work on #hornwort #pyrenoids is finally out in @science.org! 🎉 We uncovered how hornworts pack their Rubisco into pyrenoids and successfully recreated them in Arabidopsis. A key step toward engineering more efficient photosynthesis in crops @btiscience.bsky.social www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy Rat dck day, for all of those who observe. May your testtomcels be robust, and your JAK to JAK conversions abundant ❤️
Plant scientists Professor Graham Farquhar and Professor Susanne von Caemmerer transformed the world's understanding of photosynthesis, and now they have been jointly awarded the Royal Medal (Biological) from The Royal Society, at a ceremony in London. science.anu.edu.au/news-events/...
Incredibly honored to receive support from the Hypothesis Fund!
Hypothesis Fund@hypothesisfund.bsky.social · last yr.🤩 New awards announcement! ✨ We're excited to announce our latest awardees who are tackling bold research that spans immunology, plant biology, and genetics. Learn more about these talented scientists below! Discover our full portfolio: bit.ly/HFAwardees 1/
"I apologize I cannot help with the review of this paper, this is a very busy period"
Further advanced in synbio systems for expression of plant rubiscos in E. coli, exploring importance of Raf1 variants: academic.oup.com/jxb/article-... and accompanying perspective via @jxbotany.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...
Effects of chaperone selectivity on the assembly of plant Rubisco orthologs in E. coli
We used an E. coli system to examine recognition of plant Rubisco chaperones for different Rubiscos. Identified factors influencing chaperone selectivity e
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SynBio: it’s what plants crave doi.org/10.1093/jxb/... J Exp Bot Insights article from *Dan Hong Loh* - she discusses the impacts of Rubisco SynBio tool expansions from Archer et al. 2025 (doi.org/10.1093/jxb/...).
A SynBio explosion: a whole new world for Rubisco engineering
This article comments on:Archer J, Kathpalia M, Lee B, Li S, Wang T. 2025. Effects of chaperone selectivity on the assembly of plant Rubisco orthologs in E
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All the books I ordered last week just arrived! Can't wait to pour myself a drink, relax, be too tired to read and play around on my phone all night
Okay hear me out, what if building your protein model was a first person horror survival experience?? #MolecularNodes #b3d #GeometryNodes 🧪
Nice shout-out for @laura-gunn.bsky.social and @fernway.bsky.social
Nature Plants@natplants.nature.com · 2y agoNew Correspondence: "Time to end the vascular plant chauvinism" rdcu.be/d38L4 The emphasis on vascular plants reveals a bias that leaves the non-vascular plants — the tiny, overlooked, inconspicuous plants — hidden in the shadows, literally.
Check out our hornwort Rubisco kinetics: a) what catalytic tradeoff? b) almost double the kcat by removing a chaperone www.cell.com/molecular-pl... Strong publication for Zhen Guo (Zen) Oh!
Unique biogenesis and kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos revealed by synthetic biology systems
Hornworts are non-vascular land plants, which diverged from vascular plants approximately 500 million years ago, yet the CO2 fixing enzyme (Rubisco) in hornworts has received little prior attention. This study develops the synthetic biology system to heterologously express hornwort Rubiscos and demonstrates that hornwort Rubiscos have different biogenesis dependencies. Further analyses of the kinetics of hornwort Rubiscos show that Rubiscos are indeed phylogenetically constrained.
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